TWENTY DREADNOUGHTS.
INCREASED POWER OF BRITAIN’S WARSHIPS. British Dreadnoughts are rapidly increasing in power, says the “Daily Mail.” During 1910 three Dreadnoughts were commissioned for the British Navy, two were passed through their trials, four were launched, six were laid down, and five were ordered—a total of twenty ships for the year. The extraordinary rapid progress of warship design will be seen in the following table of the principle characteristics of some of the vessels on which work was done last year : BATTLESHIPS. Gunfire on Tonnage Broadside St. Vincent (completed) 19,250 6,8001 b Neptune (passed trials) 19,900 8,5001 b Hercules (launched). 20,250 8,5001 b Orion (launched) 22,680 1.2,5001 b Royal George (ordered) 2/,000 15,0001 b CRUISERS. Tonnage Gunfire Speed Indefatigable (passed trials) 18,750 6,8001 b 25kts. Germany commissioned five new Dreadnoughts in 1910, launched two, and laid down four, her total thus being eleven 'to our twenty.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3148, 18 February 1911, Page 3
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147TWENTY DREADNOUGHTS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3148, 18 February 1911, Page 3
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